Lotteries Australia

An Australian man fired from his job at a ferry-building company learned hours later that he had won the $4.5-million jackpot in a nationwide lottery. In a statement through Tattersall's lottery agency, the man--whose identity was not released--said he and 99 colleagues were to be laid off by Incat, a company that makes wave-piercing catamaran ferries.

An Australian man fired from his job at a ferry-building company learned hours later that he had won the $4.5-million jackpot in a nationwide lottery. In a statement through Tattersall's lottery agency, the man--whose identity was not released--said he and 99 colleagues were to be laid off by Incat, a company that makes wave-piercing catamaran ferries.

Ferdinand de Lesseps was an extraordinary chap, a 19th-Century French diplomat with charm and social grace but also a visionary whose heart burned with grand ideas. But it takes more than vision to turn un grand projet from idea to reality. Someone--somewhere--has got to pay for it. And that's where De Lesseps excelled. Some say his most important gift was the ability to raise big bucks.